diff --git a/doc/effective_go.html b/doc/effective_go.html
index 5f27284aaf..6adf7e5558 100644
--- a/doc/effective_go.html
+++ b/doc/effective_go.html
@@ -2954,8 +2954,7 @@ const templateStr = `
</head>
<body>
{{if .}}
-<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=300x300&cht=qr&choe=UTF-8&chl={{urlquery .}}"
-/>
+<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=300x300&cht=qr&choe=UTF-8&chl={{urlquery .}}" />
<br>
{{html .}}
<br>
@@ -2994,7 +2993,7 @@ from data items passed to templ.Execute, in this case the
form value.
Within the template text (templateStr),
double-brace-delimited pieces denote template actions.
-The piece from the {{if .}}
+The piece from {{if .}}
to {{end}} executes only if the value of the current data item, called . (dot),
is non-empty.
That is, when the string is empty, this piece of the template is suppressed.
diff --git a/doc/effective_go.tmpl b/doc/effective_go.tmpl
index 6607894820..46d774ad4e 100644
--- a/doc/effective_go.tmpl
+++ b/doc/effective_go.tmpl
@@ -2884,7 +2884,7 @@ from data items passed to templ.Execute, in this case the
form value.
Within the template text (templateStr),
double-brace-delimited pieces denote template actions.
-The piece from the {{html "{{if .}}"}}
+The piece from {{html "{{if .}}"}}
to {{html "{{end}}"}} executes only if the value of the current data item, called . (dot),
is non-empty.
That is, when the string is empty, this piece of the template is suppressed.
diff --git a/doc/progs/eff_qr.go b/doc/progs/eff_qr.go
index fc92bd0efa..5d1fd38e06 100644
--- a/doc/progs/eff_qr.go
+++ b/doc/progs/eff_qr.go
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ const templateStr = `
{{if .}}
-
+
{{html .}}